Festivals, hip hip!   Ah, grandkids,   Festivals!!! The best and usually the greatest value there is to give you laughs, tears, new experiences and fabulous memories to share. There are all sorts of festivals. Music…where maybe your top band is playing in a...

Hello fine clan Macleod/Marshall…..it’s Saturday 13th June and Scotland are about to play their first WORLD CUP game in competition for 28 years…..which we hear from the BBC every 5 minutes - God, their pundits are awful!   It’s in the USA.   Anyhow here...

Happy new year as we limp into 2026 and peer ahead through the mist of, well, everything including all the rotten things we have created in the last period of time - politicians and greedy citizens to be given loads of the blame!!!   Sandy, Alba, Anna, Breagha...

My Rock Stuff (2)   Well, it’s such a sore area - what we all like in the music scene. I’m no afficianado or expert but as a friend said,’I know what I like’.   I met a few music snobs along the way. You will too. Hmmmmm. Begone folks!   Kids I hope you...

ALL MY ROCK STARS ARE DYING (1)   Towards the end of 1969 I bought a ticket for a movie called ‘WOODSTOCK’ at the ABC LOTHIAN ROAD, Edinburgh.   Woodstock, a place in high New York, USA, based in Max Yagurs farm, forever to live in the popular music parlance...

Hello fine grandkids, how’s things wherever you are? We are just into September 2025 here on planet earth. The headlines don’t change much - war, death, famine, political lies and greedy rich people. The biggest shame is our lack of work towards any meaningful action...

January is a miserable month, all downhill, bad luck or so the empty papers and radio news reports say.   On Monday 20th January it’s called blue Monday, worst day of the year, so says the media? Well today is the day that Donald Trump, an odious human being will...

NEW YEAR 2025!!   Happy New Year my bonnie weans! It’s 2025 - what does that mean to us - you in your tiny years of innocence, Sandy the honourable exception - and me here in my closing months of three score and ten. Hmmmmmmm!   I think there is something...

Well, its 25th December 2024 my bonnie bairns and we are all in the middle of what people call the happy and peaceful best days of the year. Really?   Anyway, whatever.. Happy Christmas my weans, Sandy, university going ok? Alba primary 3 going ok? And your...

Today Wednesday 6th November 2024, the election result for president of the USA was announced just short of the official result, but the almost schizoid model of democracy points to a fairly accurate outcome.   Oh kids , on this day I weep for this world. I...